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The Good Neighbors Book One: Kin, by Holly Black & Ted Naifeh, Graphix, 2008, $16.99.
Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson, by Patricia Briggs, David Lawrence & Francis Tsai, Dabei Brothers, 2008, $3.99.
Now here's something I'd like to see more: Instead of authors having their work adapted in another medium by others, they do it themselves. Or better yet, instead of adapting books or stories that already exist (for which we've already provided our own movies in our heads, so we don't need someone to show us the "correct" version), they write something entirely new, specifically for the different medium, that's stiU connected to their usual body of work.
It might not be so big a stretch for Holly Black, considering how she's already worked in close collaboration with an artist before (The Spiderwick Chronicles). But The Good Neighbors is more akin to her dark YA books than the simpler story she...